‘Plastic Park’ in Jharkhand soon to magnetize employment for youth

New Delhi, March 20: Recycling is a process which has enabled people to make use of things that has been used priorly. Recycling the polymer products and reusing the plastics for other required work, the center has approved the setting up of a Plastic Park in Jharkhand. The Plastic Park aims at attracting more employment and also will be used to form other materials like woven sacks, moulded furniture, water tanks, bottles, pipe and other things.

Ananth Kumar, Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers, informed that the Park has great potential for attracting investment for setting up an ecosystem for plastic industry and generate employment opportunities for the local people.

He announced the setting up of Rs. 3.5 crore Plastic Recycling unit at Deoghar to tackle the menace of plastic waste being generated due to the place being a tourist attraction. Deoghar receives over 5 crore tourists per year, leading to the generation of a lot of plastic waste. This waste needs to be recycled scientifically to contain the plastic waste generation and ensure sustainable development, hence the plastic recycling unit would be of huge importance.

Ananth Kumar further informed that the project is likely to provide direct employment generation to about 6000 people and indirect employment to over 30000 people. He also requested the State government of Jharkhand to facilitate land and building infrastructure to set up a Central Institute for Plastic Engineering & Technology (CIPET) alongside the Plastic Park, so that invaluable human resource may be trained.This human resource is of vital importance as the plastic industry is growing at a rapid pace and the polymer consumption in India would double from the current 10 million metric tonnes to 20 million metric tonnes by 2022.

He also said, with coming up of the Plastic Park, CIPET, and The Plastic Recycling unit, it would build an ecosystem that would encourage setting up of Plastic Industry at Deoghar, thereby making it a ‘Plastic Hub’ in the future.